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The "correct" way??
AmE - [vait..mins]
BrE - ['vit..mins]
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There is no one correct way. I say ['vait..m.nz].
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I think everyone says [vait..m.nz] I've never heard [vit..m.nz]
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There is no one correct way, does not mean you say that no word has a correct way
to say it, So does that mean it's okay to pronounce ''dogs'' as [pigz] or [drugz]?
I don't think so. Some words have a correct way to be said.
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I mean [dr^gz] not [drugz].
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And also, ''does that'' not ''does not''.
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There is no correct way. Mr. Vitamins, you have not heard your name pronounced differently
because you have not travelled around the world.
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To Re Jim,
No, that's not what I wrote at all. When I wrote "There is no one correct way."
I was referring to the word "vitamins" not to all words in general. I say ['vait..m.nz]
others say ['vit..m.nz].
"Some words have a correct way to be said." you write. That's true enough. Other
words have got more than one correct way to be said.
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Oops! Let me rephrase that...I say ['vait..minz], not ['vait..mins]. I've heard
many Britons say ['vit..minz], and I assumed that was the way Commonwealth speakers
pronounced it. But I guess Jim proved me wrong.
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But they are not just arbitrarily pronounced differently. It is a loan word. So the
British pronunciation reflects an approximation of the I from the loan word. The
American and Australian pronunciations choose instead to pronounce according to typical
English rules, ie. stressed long I open syllable = rhymes with PIE.
So the different pronunciations just reflect different choices.
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Yeah,
I don't know why we've gone along with the Americans on this one. Aussie English
is usually closer to British English than American English but there are a couple
of exceptions.
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